B.L.A.C.K stands for: Beauty, Land, Ancestry, Culture & Kin – lets begin. With “Humanizing and Thriving” our motto, we got a few messages worth listening to. Comming from one of the worlds oldest cultures we bring a fresh sound for the entertainment world to dance and live to.

Biography

From uncertain times come our positive, wise, cheerful and truthful songs. The stories we sing about can span back to 100 000 years ago in our country and also speak about our times today. Unity, Faith and Freedom is where we would like our experience to arrive and we sing about always keeping on that track.

We talk about belonging to a peaceful people and land, being disrupted, survival, revival, childhood, adulthood, motherhood, fatherhood, day to day and politics of course. We advocate natural living, positive thinking, people belonging in nature and together and really hope to make our difference with music and dance.

Empowered by the idea of freedom in every way for all – achieved through the concepts of indigenisation. Hit a nerve? Let’s brainstorm

By Kaiyu Bayles

Reverse It

Reverse It… please,

wearing rags, clothes I mean,

happiness hardly seen,

Loosing sight of whats right, learnin nothing in schools,

Talking English, Living in houses and Jails, no good rules

Money supposed to be important, people always fight

Na Not me, I’m Indigenous to Thee

We belong to beauty possessed by you and me, but now we all crying

All together was Mother Earths creations, laying, walking and flying,

Words of wisdom, love in everyone, peace always a given

Free we was, off our home we were driven

I can feel the pain and the sorrow,

What will come tomorrow?

Whiteman, yellow man, black man need to make a stand….

Make their ways count, discover the lors we have for this land

Save us all…. No more Jails, Housing estates, highways, murders and rapes

No more Red tape….. Reverse it Please!

We might all be free, not just the old aborigine

Let’s Indigenize it all ay?

By Kaiyu Moura Bayles

Take A Moment

To think about the clothes you’re in

Are You Comfortable

To think about that house you call home

Is it really a Castle?

To think about the family you’re in

How happy is everyone and why?

Take a moment

Before you leave today

Think

What makes you happy?

And what does not

Because change

Starts with you…so

Take a moment

Greet the day

Just as our ancestors did

Speak words of kindness

To ourselves too

Heal your pain

Let yourself free

Eat the foods of the earth

Swim in her oceans and lakes

Say I love you at least once a day

Take a moment

Remember we are all great

Free yourself from the chains

How can you be?

If you’re not happy

Go back to being that free spirited child

We all deserve to be free

We can and will make it right… Just

Take moment

Love the skin your in

Discover your true talents

Practice Gratitude and fewer attitudes

Love Peace More and Hate War Less

Still having trouble? Well that’s cool too

When you c that child smiling

That’s what it’s all about

Yes there’s negativity all around

But change is a coming

But first we all have to

Take a moment

Own our pain, heal it

Breath, Lets not exist but live life

Hold on to your loved ones

Lead the way for all

Let love and positivity rule

Not politicians, jobs and school

Let’s recreate true happiness

For one and all

Take a moment

More answers lay deep in our beautiful lands

Turn to our brothers and sisters who carry the true way forward

Harmony, balance and respect for great and small

Since the beginning

This can be ours now

Handed down through you and me

Take a moment

We will move forward soon

We have to dig deeper in time

Make those ancient laws yours and mine

Teach them to our children, communities and countries

Are we heading for destruction as 1 people?

Have the answers for a real proper society been left in time?

Take a moment

For the future of all

Maintain principals that stand tall

Take this moment right now

By Kaiyu Bayles

You go!

Yes u got pain sista girl

Loosin your mama ain’t easy

Split up from your grandma well that’s real hard too!

What happens when your not safe changes everything about you

Sayin goodbye to old friends and babies too

But plenty of people before you made it through

Your allowed to cry, it’s been tough

On your own u need more than luck

Take that pain sis its yours,and love it

Yeas you could have been this and that

But you can’t take that back

Look after yourself – relax

No fears with the tears

Let them flow

Choking n smoking

Feeling yourself grow

It’s ok Sis – let it go

Look back on pain and happiness

Live in the moment

Create that bliss

And remember without the blues

you wouldn’t be you

By Kaiyu Bayles

WHY CANT I JUST B ME?

Why cant I just be Kaiyu

Why cant I just be me

All this stress n responsibility

I just wanna be free

Yaraka, Mara, Jyda, Kia, Binowee

They all me

Alison, Laina N Dee

Let me Be, You go, Be free

Granny here now, I’m feelin sad

Don’t know what’s goin on. N feelin bad

Everythings goin to be all right

Just one more night

By Kaiyu Bayles

About my music:

Here u know!

My first song was recorded first run, my first time rapping in a room of people, with live band. All firsts, music is done by some peeps well known, Amen from Almecca Supreme etc. Feel like i let them down lol. Wanna do recording wid King Homeboy, nz’s number 1 beat boxer over n over, we worked on a song together.

I live on an island now, in isolation, not too far though. I travelled oz really young as dad managed most of our big name bands of the time. I love all good music but the style of that day, is where my heart is. Do u know song We Have Survived by No Fixed Address, this is a lil of the sound i love most? Us mob rocked, and of course Warumpi, i remember being in the desert watching him/uncle play in the middle of no where to about 100 camp residents. Better than the 20 big shows i saw him in.

Anyway i love music i bn to c womak n womak n interviewed them 4 my radio show wen iwas like 7, public enemy (met them twice), mickael (my sister was chosen at preschool to go bak 2 hotel wid mikael n was in paper wid him), janet jackson, mc hammer, salt n pepa, missy elliott, snoop dog, nelly, i know Michael Franti n have been to backstage 2 4 spearhead gigs since 1993. Dad organised building bridges stuff where i met barnsey, crowded house mob, gondwanna n sadly because dad WAS friends with Garett id go to the oils concerts until i was about 13. I’d ring manager myself wen i was lil, dad would tell me to n organised tickets 4 few of us.

But most importantly mum n dad r close with Archie Roach n we’d stay up late wid him n aunty singing in da kitchen, we looked after everyone, dancegroups, bands, families in early days in sydney, formed a dance group ourselves n ended up even closer to murri artist at events. Like Kev Carmody, Bart Willoughby, paul Kelly, Tiddas, Roger knox n all hip hoppers too. Than i worked in festivals n loved it all.

Anyway, this is my experience so far n hope dat 1 day my sound wil be a melting pot of everything. At this stage, since i only recorded it in oct 2010 n laptop is blinked i have lots more work to do and would totally understand if u don’t like it. I just jumped at the chance to share really, trying to get more confident n leave this shame shit behind.

Deep B.L.A.C.K Songlist – Lyrics

Is It Always Going To Feel This Way?

Chorus:

We were here you know?

Long, long, long, long time ago.

In this bright green country

For us to all roam freely

Why would you change It?

I have to ask this nation.

Got to realise it.

Then Indigenize It!

This our Island home

Free n easy we roam.

Disrupted 100,000 years of peace

For convicts and their police.

You’ve no jurisdiction,

With a history like science fiction.

Cause we have listened, we have learned,

We have laughed, cried and yearned…

So this Westminster system with no jurisdiction

Is about to be overturned.

Confusioned, disillusion,

where’s the rebelution?

Keep a check on how we feel,

Are we all keeping real?

Keep checkin our relation

Cause from nation to nation

We are all racin to nowhere land and

We need to understand…

Because, it’s not meant to be like this

Bein helpless

Not meant to feel like this

Clenchin our fists.

Kneeling and praying each day,

Is it always going to feel this way?

(Language)

GOORI’S!!!!!!!!!!

Rise up, Rise up, Rise up.

Sovereign people still today

For a new day, for our old ways.

Time to thrive, we have survived.

Even modern day genocide.

Colonisation, segregation, assimilation and now reconciliation…

Got all our ears achin!

So let’s go walkabout n coorooboree now..

Dreamin’s alla time – anytime,

Chorus:

We were here you know?

Long, long, long, long time ago.

In this bright green country

For us to all roam freely

Why would you change It?

I have to ask this nation.

Got to realise it.

Then Indigenize It!

We were here you know?

Long, long, long, long time ago.

In this bright green country

For us to all roam freely

Why would you change It?

I have to ask this nation.

Got to realise it.

Then Indigenize It!

It’s not meant to be like this

Lacking a mothers kiss

Not meant to feel like this

Lil joyfulness

If we kneel n pray, for it to go away

Is it always goin to feel this way?

This land where you stand needs man to understand

This is sacred land,

Everywhere you walk, sit or stand,

Our people been there.

Home 2 da rainbow serpent and red sand

Law, histories, song and dance.

It’s coming back from the surface

To put an end to this circus.

We know a better way

From living in a better day.

Now Sssshhh, while we watch our children play.

There ain’t no mystery

We governed, we tilled and documented history.

In 2011 you can’t get away with Invasion

Put an end to this illegal occupation, of a nation,

Stop rations, listen, be patient.

Kicking off the heads of our next generation,

Now still victims of corporate rascists.

We the key ingredient!

All this talk, anybody meanin it?

Experience and understanding is seldom

Yet knowledge plus consequences, equals, wisdom.

Don’t it?

Not meant to be like this,

Life is politics

Not meant to feel like this

Bunch of lunatics at it,

If we try a different way

Is it always goin to feel this way?

(Language)

Chorus:

We were here you know?

Long, long, long, long time ago.

In this bright green country

For us to all roam freely

Why would you change It?

I have to ask this nation.

Got to realise it.

Then Indigenize It!

No, No, No,

It’s not to be this way

Our spirit still strong today

It’s not meant to feel this way

Sing, dance, shout now n play

The ole way back for a new day.

Together: Dedicated to our great, great, great, great, greats,

we shall b free In our home country.

To all our childrens, childrens, childrens, children,

Keep on smiling and thrivin on your Aboriginal Island.

Chorus:

We were here you know?

Long, long, long, long time ago.

In this bright green country

For us to all roam freely

Why would you change It?

I have to ask this nation.

Got to realise it.

Then Indigenize It!

(language)

We were here you know?

Long, long, long, long time ago.

In this bright green country

For us to all roam freely

Why would you change It?

I have to ask this nation.

Got to realise it.

Then Indigenize It!

The Block Rocks

Holden Street’s where my family began,

Nan hiding under the bed

From the devil man.

Mum fought her way through,

No one had it easy I knew.

Cards was the go, though

But no takin things slow. though

The Railway view, The Clifton, The Empress.

Koori’s here dress to impress.

We got style,

Leave Paris in Denial.

And our love is strong

Kisses and cuddles are long.

Don’t mess around

Or the block will come down

Around

You!

(Language)

Chorus:

The Block rox!

We been here too long,

We too strong!

Your plans are no good

Wantin the block to look good.

No rain’s goin to come,

Once development’s began.

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

Mix it up, fix it up,

Don’t mess it up!

From Newcastle, Mooli, n Cowra

To Walgett, Moori n Cumra!

We’ll be gatherin till eternity

And now it’s up to you and me!

To give the men a hand

Help with em a plan

Culture centre & Sports centre, we a solid community.

Let’s get it together true Redfern unity

All the block babies, warriors, soldiers,

Everyone knows now cause we told em.

Hold up ya hands if ya care!

N Scream I’m there

(I’m there)

I Care

(I care)

If that qualified as a petition

The world would listen.

Since the beginning of their visiting

We been holdin em out – resisting.

Pamulway, Tedbury,

They showed the way!

Uncle Doug, Uncle Ken n Uncle Max,

They knew not to be too relaxed.

Like the Redfern All Blacks

Keep the ball in motion,

Just like a rolling ocean.

Truth is always the potion,

Let’s move this notion.

The Block Rox!

(language)

Chorus:

We been here too long,

We too strong!

Your plans are no good

Wantin the block to look good.

No rain’s goin to come,

Once development’s began.

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

Mix it up, fix it up,

Please don’t mess it up!

Forget the Harbour Bridge, Centre Point, The Rocks,

Bondi & Darling Harbour – the Block Rox!

What a sad day

That one in Botany Bay.

So called brutes and Terranulias.

You fulla’s shamed your king and yourselves,

Changing paradise into a colony.

Forgetting along the way, humanities.

But now we strong and each one of us is free.

Hardened by misery.

Cause today the top dogs

Still bring in the top rocks.

But No matter what

The Block will always Rock!

Yes its the black heart,

Redfern was the very start,

Of many things, great.

A late congrats to all who’d congregate,

for our communities, our race.

FACTSIA, Activists,

With all the mad tactics

Medical centre and childcare.

Still on the Block we always share.

For the work you do,

We all thank you

Uncle Shane, Aunty Ali n all the mob that rallies

Together for Redfern, it’s your turn

to sing:

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

Chorus:

We been here too long,

We too strong!

Your plans are no good

Wantin the block to look good.

No rain’s goin to come,

Once development’s began.

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

Mix it up, fix it up,

Please don’t mess it up!

To the whole Redfern family,

U a big part of me.

Specially those we’ve lost.

And we’ll never loose the block!

No sellin off

To no yupee lot

I oppose any notion

That goes against the grain of the people n the emotion.

I hope this message travels across the land,

All hear it, Koori woman and man.

The blocks still under threat,

They tryin to knock it down n attack it with bricks and cement.

Is any body available – (to comment?)

Whose liable,

When the grandchildren come to gather

And there’s not even a shadow.

To remind them of the times,

All the years, all the people gone by?

All the years Redfern shines,

Always so fresh in my heart and mind.

I’m one to put a stop to, well start…

We can’t be sold out by no retard.

No disrespect.

No harm meant.

Be accountable,

Don’t let it fall!

I can’t it’s where I learnt to crawl!

N people there changed my nappy…

The block is where we’re all happy!

Cause

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

(language)

Chorus:

We been here too long,

We too strong!

Your plans are no good

Wantin the block to look good.

No rain’s goin to come,

Once development’s began.

Mix it up, fix it up,

Please don’t mess it up!

You only got one shot.

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

The Block Rox!

Breathe

Chorus:

Sometimes

When I rise up

Open my eyes up

Wanna scream

Wanna scram

Get the hell out here

But all is as it’s meant to be

Release, release, Oh release.

All is as it’s meant to be.

Language (fast dance beat)

Cause they don’t know how they feel,

Let’s keep these dictators reel.

We been driven from our lands.

Are we controlled by the man?

All is as it’s meant to be. They say.

And we can’t fix a world that’s not broken

But so many words go unspoken.

So man’s direction has to be criticised

For disillusioned plans to civilise.

We the most documented race,

But nobody really knows,

Even though on

All of our faces it shows.

Chorus:

Sometimes

When I rise up

Open my eyes up

Wanna scream

Wanna scram

Get the hell out here

But all is as it’s meant to be

Release, release, Oh release.

All is as it’s meant to be.

But people care, there to lend a helping hand.

Is it enough though?

Life is tough you know?

Open your eyes; wanna scream?

Everything is as it’s meant to be.

Everything’s just as it’s meant to be?

Would I change a thing?

This damn democracy is crazy!

No, don’t, stop that, you can’t,

Even babies aren’t free.

These puppeteers of false mastery

Better off stickin to customary law…real mastery.

Kaiyu: Gotta look after number one?

How do you tell that to a mum?

All those who’ve had enough, open your heart

Where do they start?

Hear their screams,( is ok?)

What bout they dreams

Can we walk away because we feel this way…?

When lil help never went astray.

People care and someone’s always there.

The greatest of us, grew up tough,

Overcoming feelings of giving up.

So don’t scream, just breathe.

In n Out In n Out (background fast beat – In out, In out at same time).

C’mon people share and care to understand, first…

Kaiyu: Breath in and out.

Sometimes

When I rise up

Open my eyes up

Wanna scream

Wanna scram

Get the hell out here

But all is as it’s meant to be

Release, release, Oh release.

All is as it’s meant to be.

Patty: Does the world get colder as we get older?

Can’t get sick, need an ear or a shoulder?

The unity is missin

From our communities.

To raise our children proper,

Let’s set up camp wherever.

People do care – there to lend a hand

Listen carefully – to the land

Open our eyes – we all got to realise…

People care – even wen the problem ain’t theirs.

Sing and dance now.

Close your eyes.

Close your mind.

Because everything,

everything is as it’s meant to be.

Together, lets send love to all suffering and for freedom,

For the war torn and oppressed,

The hungry n homeless.

Together: Do we care? Care to really understand,

How we really feel?

How we really live?

Might make us wanna scream, but…

Take it slowly and… breathe.

Care to share n be there,

For the ones you love,

Before we give up.

Dare to dream,

Quieten our minds and breathe.

And join together,

One mob forever.

Bring our best selves

Aim for the top shelves.

And start to care

Or it could be the end of man, damn.

In the meantime, just breathe….

In n out (In out, In out).

In n out (In out, In out).

Language (fast dance beat)

Chorus:

Sometimes

When I rise up

Open my eyes up

Wanna scream

Wanna scram

Get the hell out here

But all is as it’s meant to be

Sometimes

When I rise up

Open my eyes up

Wanna scream

Wanna scram

Get the hell out here

But all is as it’s meant to be

Sometimes

When I rise up

Open my eyes up

Wanna scream

Wanna scram

Get the hell out here

But all is as it’s meant to be

Release, release, Oh release me.

All is as it’s meant to be.

Just Breathe In N Out

(Breath in out, in out).

Sunshine In A Concrete Haze

Lil Kaiyu down Waterloo,

Down the PCYC you can find me,

The factory, Laundromat,

The fern or market.

Not quiet what life was meant to be,

Shops n a lane – not reel free.

We were happy

Eatin fruit from a tree,

Drinkin water from a whole in the conrete.

Little women,

Meetin up – goin swimmen,

Down the PA,

Go home n u have to stay.

No idea what was round the corner,

Sis, wished I could’ev warned ya.

Cuase it felt too good

In our lil neighbourhood

Across from the Rabbits

N all the bad habbits

So much goin down in our home town

We were too busy bein little clowns

Chorus:

You see we love Redfern n Waterloo too!

Even far away it’s still in you.

But take us home

Where our spirits roam.

Our ole ways

Like cleaning rays

Too much sorry time

In all our lives…

Brothers n sisters we free – You n Me!

Cause we the deadliest,

The strugglers!

They goin bleed us,

We goin Lead us!

Your bodies tired and mind’s even worse,

You’ve seen it all

N aint nothing to live for.

But this is your land!

Bloods on white hands!

You and me,

We free.

Send all the majik U can find,

Heal that pain and see us shine.

Our grannies were taken,

Our children forsaken.

And trying to awaken

From this nightmare called life,

Trouble, strife.

Old n new trauma is too much pain

For one too maintain.

It’s not all in vein,

Cause we can all remain

Part of that long, long chain.

(language)

Chorus:

You see we love Redfern n Waterloo too!

Even far away it’s still in you.

But take us home

Where our spirits roam.

Our ole ways

Like cleaning rays

Too much sorry time

In all our lives…

Brothers n sisters we free – You n Me!

Cause we the deadliest,

The strugglers!

They goin bleed us,

We goin Lead us!

Cause we the deadliest,

The strugglers!

They goin bleed us,

We goin Lead us!

We free to enjoy each other n loving this experience,

Make time to cry n still marvel at our brilliance.

We can learn to live, love n laugh,

Even if making the most of this day is hard.

Learn just 1 word, listen n smile,

Play with children, run a mile.

Our mind needs exercise.

Soon we’ll all realise,

With these strong blood lines,

It’s still our time.

Swim in our waters, eat our food,

Rid all problems with mood.

And with all this began,

Wat will invasion really have done.

Aborigine – part o’ u’s in part of me.

Me n you, you n you, we gotta become we.

We all branches off the one tree.

That’s how we put an end to world hostility.

Cause we the deadliest,

The strugglers!

They goin bleed us,

We goin Lead us!

Cause we the deadliest,

The strugglers!

They goin bleed us,

We goin Lead us!

Chorus:

You see we love Redfern n Waterloo too!

Even far away it’s still in you.

But take us home

Where our spirits free to roam.

Our ole ways

Like cleaning rays

Too much sorry time

In all our lives…

Brothers n sisters we free – You n Me!

(language)

This song is dedicated to the sufferers of invasions. There experiences are a direct result of systems gone wrong from the beginning. Who feels it the most? The disadvantaged. Even though they do not engage in it in any way they experience the brink of the rapes, the violence, the murders, drugs, degradation and overall disregard of one of the greatest treasures of all time. Human Kind.